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UNTTEE %TATE% PATENT VICTOR A. PITSCH, OF LEAVEN'W'ORTH, KANSAS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 9, 1914. Serial No. 817,515.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known. that T, Vroron A. Prrsor-I, a

citizen of the United States, residing atv Leavenworth, in the county of Leavenworth and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in stoves, and the invention resides more particularly in new-and useful means whereby the doors of a stove may be opened or closed, and also means for regulating the draftvalve of said stove.

The objects of my invention are, first, to produce a better article at less cost of manufacture; second, to produce an article which can be assembled with the stove door in less time than heretofore; and third, to provide an article or device which, after being assembled with the stove-door, will not come apart or get out of order.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a broken front elevation of a stove with the doors thereof provided with my invention. Fig. 2 is an irregular horizontal section, enlarged, on line IT-II of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on the same plane as Fig. 2, showing how the device is as Fig. 4 is a vertical section on line IV-IV of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a section on line VV of Fig. 2.

A designates the broken front portion of a stove, B the upper stove-door through which fuel is fed, and C the ash-pit door provided with the usual draft-valve I) mounted at its lower end upon a hinge E.

The door A is provided near its front margin with a tubular boss 1, extending therethrough and having a segmental recess 2 in its outer face, see Fig. 5.

3 designates the device which constitutes the important feature of the invention. Said device comprises a lever 41, a tapered shank 5 integral with said lever and extend ing substantially at right angles thereto, and a hook 6 integral with shank 5 and terminating in a beveled end 7 for impingement against the beveled side 8 of a keeper 9, integral with the inner front side of the door-jamb 10. Lever 1, where it communicates with shank 5, has a marginal shoulder 11, which bears against the inner tapered wall of the boss 1 and thus acts as a stop to prevent further entrance of the lever 4; therein.

12 designates a cotter-pin which extends through a transverse hole 13 in shank 5 and bears against the inner end of boss 1. The shoulder 11 and the cotter-pin 12 cooperate in holding the shank 5 in the boss 1 and preventing longitudinal movement of said IsJhank, which, however, is free to rock in the oss.

141 designates a lug integral with shoulder 11 and extending into the recess 2, in which it is free to move until it contacts the ends 15-16 of said recess. When the door B is open, lug 14 rests upon the terminal 15 and supports the lever 4, in substantially, a hori- Zontal position, so that said lever in turn supports the shank 5 and hook 6 in such position that when the door is pushed to closed position the beveled end 7 contacts and rides the beveled edge 8 of the keeper 9. As the beveled end 7 rides the beveled edge 8, the hook 6 is raised sufficiently to permit it to pass behind the keeper 9. It is then automatically forced into engagement with the inclined rear edge 9 of said keeper by the downward movement of lever 4:, which was raised with the hook when the beveled end 7 thereof rode the beveled edge 8. Upward movement of the hook 6 and the lever 41 is limited by the lug M contacting the terminal 16 of the recess 2, hence there is no Patented May is, rare.

danger of hook 6 rocking to a vertical posithrough. the tubular boss 1 and reliably held in place by the shoulder 11 and the cotterpin 12, and after being secured in place there is no danger of the device coming apart as in devices consisting of a plurality of parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In combination with a stove door having a keeper on the door amb, said keeper having a beveled side face inclined outwardly toward the jamb and an inclined rear edge, a boss carried by the door and having a bore and an outer segmental recess the ends of which form stops, a shank rotatably mounted in the boss, a hook formedon the inner end of the shank having a free end face of greater inclination than that of the beveled face of the keeper, a lever carried by the outer end of the shank, said lever being adaptedto move upwardly as the hook rides over the beveled face of the keeper, and being adapted to swingdownwardl y under its Weight upon disengagement of the hook With said beveled face upon engagement "of the hookWith the inclined edge of: 1

said keeper and a lug on the shank operating in said segmental recess and engageable With the stops thereof.

Wijmses:

' F.- G. FIscH-ER,

L. J. FISCHER.

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